De Vere, or, The man of independence /

Originally published: 1st ed. London : Colburn, 1827. With new introd.

The brown semicostate and costate species of Colaspis in Mexico and Central America (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) /

Issued Aug. 1976.

University of Michigan Field Hockey Team, 1983

Front Row: co-captains Kay McCarthy and Denise Comby.

Second Row: Jane Nixon, Bridget Sickon, Jackie Rodgers, Joan Taylor, Lisa Murray, Kim Liu and Kathy Barron.

Back Row: assistant coach Karen Collins, Jonnie Terry, Maura Brueger, Alison Johnson, Jamie Fry, Katie Mayhew, Doris McCubbery, Lisa Schofield, Heidi Ditchendorf, Maryann Bell, head coach Candy Zientek.

School of Nursing Class of 1989, Medical-Surgical

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Row 3: Mary J Barry, Ellen D. Nichols, Dorothy M. O'Connor, Anne F. Darga, Doris R. Grinspun, Suzanne M. Hurd, Christine M. Olree

4D bulletin boards that teach: duo-purpose, dimensional, diversified, direct.

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A history of the town of Orwell, Vermont, dedicated to all citizens past and present /

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The handbell choir; a manual for church, school, and community groups.

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Corporate meetings, minutes, and resolutions,

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Reliability and validity of the medical outcomes study social support survey (Chinese version)

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The impact of learning outcomes in business education: assessing value, relevance and graduate ability in a multi-country study of employers and business graduates

This paper discusses critical findings from a two-year EU-funded research project involving four European countries: Austria, England, Slovenia and Romania. The project had two primary aims. The first of these was to develop a systematic procedure for assessing the balance between learning outcomes acquired in education and the specific needs of the labour market. The second aim was to develop and test a set of meta-level quality indicators aimed at evaluating the linkages between education and employment. The project was distinctive in that it combined different partners from Higher Education, Vocational Training, Industry and Quality Assurance. One of the key emergent themes identified in exploratory interviews was that employers and recent business graduates in all four countries want a well-rounded education which delivers a broad foundation of key business knowledge across the various disciplines. Both groups also identified the need for personal development in critical skills and competencies. Following the exploratory study, a questionnaire was designed to address five functional business areas, as well as a cluster of 8 business competencies. Within the survey, questions relating to the meta-level quality indicators assessed the impact of these learning outcomes on the workplace, in terms of the following: 1) value, 2) relevance and 3) graduate ability. This paper provides an overview of the study findings from a sample of 900 business graduates and employers. Two theoretical models are proposed as tools for predicting satisfaction with work performance and satisfaction with business education. The implications of the study findings for education, employment and European public policy are discussed.

Getting the most out of multidisciplinary teams: a multi-sample study of team innovation in health care

Driven by the assumption that multidisciplinarity contributes positively to team outcomes teams are often deliberately staffed such that they comprise multiple disciplines. However, the diversity literature suggests that multidisciplinarity may not always benefit a team. This study departs from the notion of a linear, positive effect of multidisciplinarity and tests its contingency on the quality of team processes. It was assumed that multidisciplinarity only contributes to team outcomes if the quality of team processes is high. This hypothesis was tested in two independent samples of health care workers (N = 66 and N = 95 teams), using team innovation as the outcome variable. Results support the hypothesis for the quality of innovation, rather than the number of innovations introduced by the teams.

Managing people to promote innovation

There is growing evidence available to suggest that Human Resource Management (HRM) practice is an important predictor of organizational performance. Drawing upon organizational learning perspectives, we argue that HRM systems also have the potential to promote organizational innovation. We present longitudinal data from thirty-five UK manufacturing organizations to suggest that effective HRM systems – incorporating sophisticated approaches to recruitment and selection, induction, appraisal and training – predict organizational innovation in products and production technology. We further show that organizational innovation is enhanced where there is a supportive learning climate, and inhibited (for innovation in production processes) where there is a link between appraisal and remuneration.